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Scaramouche a Romance of the French Revolution

Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Raised by a supposed godfather, Andre'-Louis Moreau knows nothing about his background or his real parents not even his real name. All he knows is that he wants vengeance against the vicious, arrogant aristocrat who brutally murdered his best friend. As France plummets into revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, Moreau's journey toward revenge takes him through several careers, from lawyer to fugitive to actor and playwright and eventually to member of the French National Assembly. Hiding with a troupe of itinerant actors, he gleefully plays the traditional Commedia Dell-Arte role of Scaramouche, the trouble-making trickster who, like Shakespeare's fools and jesters, speaks painful truths disguised as harmless comedy. Rafael Sabatini was a twentieth-century Alexandre Dumas: a masterful creator of swashbuckling historical romances. Mixing real people with fictional characters and actual events with invented ones, Sabatini drew vivid, accurately detailed pictures of revolution-addled France. In Scaramouche, he turns a sweeping adventure epic into a subtle psychological study, as Moreau's odyssey gradually becomes less about revenge than about self-discovery. Includes 8 pieces of original art.

"Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Raised by a supposed godfather, Andre'-Louis Moreau knows nothing about his background or his real parents not even his real name. All he knows is that he wants vengeance against the vicious, arrogant aristocrat who brutally murdered his best friend. As France plummets into revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, Moreau's journey toward revenge takes him through several careers, from lawyer to fugitive to actor and playwright and eventually to member of the French National Assembly. Hiding with a troupe of itinerant actors, he gleefully plays the traditional Commedia Dell-Arte role of Scaramouche, the trouble-making trickster who, like Shakespeare's fools and jesters, speaks painful truths disguised as harmless comedy. Rafael Sabatini was a twentieth-century Alexandre Dumas: a masterful creator of swashbuckling historical romances. Mixing real people with fictional characters and actual events with invented ones, Sabatini drew vivid, accurately detailed pictures of revolution-addled France. In Scaramouche, he turns a sweeping adventure epic into a subtle psychological study, as Moreau's odyssey gradually becomes less about revenge than about self-discovery. Includes 8 pieces of original art."@en

"The tale of a man "who was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Forced to go into hiding for his political activity, Andre-Louis Moreau joins a theater troupe and ends up in Paris during the Revolution where he must rescue the cousin he secretly loves."@en

"The tale of a man "who was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Forced to go into hiding for his political activity, Andre-Louis Moreau joins a theater troupe and ends up in Paris during the Revolution where he must rescue the cousin he secretly loves."

""For love of a woman and to avenge a friend, how, through crowded days of glorious adventure, André Louis Moreau, fugitive, strolling player, master of fence, gained fame and happiness at the point of a sword"--Dust-jacket."

"Scaramouche is a swashbuckling romantic adventure set during the French Revolution. A young lawyer becomes enmeshed in political turmoil, and goes into hiding as an actor with a traveling commedia dell'arte troupe. He plays the buffoon, Scaramouche. During his adventures he also becomes a master politician and swordsman, and though he is a revolutionary, circumstances force him to change sides several times. The tone of the book is set from the opening line: "He was born with a gift ..."@en

"In this silent film André Louis Moreau, a French law student, masquerades as a clown and vows to fight against the aristocracy when his friend Philippe is killed in a duel with the Marquis de la Tour. André deserts his guardians and his sweetheart Aline and joins a group of strolling musicians, finding himself in Paris at the outbreak of the Revolution. Caught in a mob determined to destroy the ruling class, André discovers that his father is the much-despised Marquis de la Tour and his mother is a countess. André pleads with the crowds to let his mother's carriage pass out of the city, while his father dies a nobleman's death in the crowds."

"In this silent film André Louis Moreau, a French law student, masquerades as a clown and vows to fight against the aristocracy when his friend Philippe is killed in a duel with the Marquis de la Tour. André deserts his guardians and his sweetheart Aline and joins a group of strolling musicians, finding himself in Paris at the outbreak of the Revolution. Caught in a mob determined to destroy the ruling class, André discovers that his father is the much-despised Marquis de la Tour and his mother is a countess. André pleads with the crowds to let his mother's carriage pass out of the city, while his father dies a nobleman's death in the crowds."@en

"Scaramouche pushes the republican cause in the first years of the French Revolution, while pursuing law, politics, fencing and entertainment."@en

"Scaramouche pushes the republican cause in the first years of the French Revolution, while pursuing law, politics, fencing and entertainment."

"Set in the time of the French Revolution, this 1921 novel tells of the romantic adventures of Andre-Louis Moreau, a man who has never known the names of his parents. Educated as a lawyer and living with his godfather, Andre-Louis becomes involved with revolutionaries after his best friend is killed in a duel with the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. He gives stirring speeches to the rebels concerning wealthy men who are not brought to justice, which helps set the stage for the Revolution. Andre-Louis is forced into hiding for his political involvement, and he soon discovers his gifts for acting, playwriting, and fencing in a series of entertaining events. He protects the people he cares for while seeking revenge in this courtly, transformative story. Ultimately, Andre-Louis uncovers the identities of those he has always wished to know. - Back cover."

"'Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth...' Once he was AndrE-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France's lower class'until his friend was mercilessly struck down by a member of the aristocracy. Now he is Scaramouche. Speaking out against the unjust French government, he takes refuge with a nomadic band of actors and assumes the role of the clown Scaramouche'a comic figure with a very serious message'. Set during the French Revolution, this novel of swashbuckling romance is also a thought-provoking commentary on class, inequality, and the individual's role in society'a story that has become Rafael Sabatini's enduring legacy. With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand."@en

""Lawyer Andre-Louis Moreau, appalled by the death of his best friend at the hands of a member of the aristocracy, assumes the role of the clown Scaramouche with an acting troupe in pre-Revolutionary France and proceeds to speak out against the unjust French government.""@en

"A romantic tale of a young aristocrat's adventures during the French Revolution. At one point the hero joins a theater troupe to portray ''Scaramouche''. He also becomes a lawyer, a politician, and a lover, confounding his enemies with his elegant oration and precise swordsmanship. An excellent swashbuckler!"@en

Scaramouche (Motion picture)

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